Written by American author Debbie Macomber (known for her Cedar Cove series), The Blossom Street Series begins with Lydia Hoffman, a woman who has opened A Good Yarn Shop on Blossom Street. The shop represents her dream of a new beginning; a life free from cancer and the serendipity that comes from taking chances. How…
Rachel Hore is a British fiction writer who used to work at HarperCollins before moving to Norfolk with her husband–author D. J. Taylor–and children in 2001. That’s when she started her writing career. First, she worked on a short story that kept on growing until it became her first novel, The Dream House, published in…
Carole Matthews is a British author known for her romance novels who published her first book, Let’s Meet on Platform Eight, in 1997. Since then, she published more than 30 books, often appearing on the bestseller lists, especially with novels like Welcome To The Real World, Wrapped up in You, and Happiness for Beginners. How…
At the age of 50, Jan Karon left her career in advertising and moved to Blowing Rock, North Carolina, in order to pursue her dream of becoming an author. One night, she dreamt of a street and a character that led her to create her series. The Mitford Years is taking us to a little…
Written by the British-Zimbabwean author Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club or the Isabel Dalhousie series is about a philosopher and amateur sleuth. Set in Edinburgh, Scotland, the series follows Isabel Dalhousie, a curious philosopher and woman detective, who loves to investigate all kinds of mysteries, searching for the truth, in a philosophical way…
The queen of the revenge novel, Jane Fallon is a British author, but also the multi-award-winning television producer behind shows such as This Life, Teachers, EastEnders, and 20 Things to Do Before You’re 30. Her debut novel “Getting Rid of Matthew’ was published in 2007. Since then, she has published almost 10 more books, and…
Written by the American author Christine Feehan, GhostWalkers is a paranormal/romance series about people with psychic abilities. The GhostWalker experiment was created to enhance the psychic abilities of an elite squadron, transforming their natural telekinetic powers into a unique military weapon. Now, they go on impossible missions, using their powers to save lives and find…
Louise Rennison (1951-2016) was an English author and comedian. She found success with her one-woman autobiographical show, “Stevie Wonder Felt My Face,” and began to write for Woman’s Hour on Radio Four, for comedians, and for a London newspaper. This led her to publish in 1999 her first fiction book for teenage girls. The Confessions…
Like the Landry series, The Cutler Series is actually not written by V.C. Andrews but by Andrew Neiderman, the ghostwriter hired by her estate to continue to write novels to be published under her name (Virginia Andrews’s name is considered a valuable commercial asset). V.C. Andrews had started writing the first book in the series,…
Jane Green (also known as Jane Green Warburg) is a best-selling English-born American author who’s writing commercial women’s fiction. Green started as a publicist in her early 20s before working as a journalist for a few years–writing for The Daily Express, The Daily Mail, and Cosmopolitan magazine. She started working on her first novel, Straight…
Written by American author Anna Todd, The After series is a young-adult romance series that was originally published on Wattpad before being picked up by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. The series started as fan fiction, as it was initially inspired by the music and fandom of One Direction. The singer Harry…
Written (in part) by American author Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl follows the privileged socialite teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite private school in New York City’s Upper East Side. The story focused on best friends Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen, their lives being chronicled by the eponymous gossip…
